Handwritten note to Dr Arnold aboard HMS Hindostan

by Governor Lachlan Macquarie

A$8,250 · Offered by Hordern House

On board HMS Dromedary: 29 August 1809. Single sheet of folded notepaper, 225 x 183 mm, wove paper with no watermark; some wear at the edges and along the old fold, paper stub along left margin neatly trimmed no doubt having been removed from an order or account book . Macquarie writes en route to his governorship in the new colony

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